Complete list of athletes with Washington ties competing at next week's NCAA D1 Champs...

With the NCAA West and East First Round meets in the rear view mirror, the NCAA officially announced the field for the NCAA Division I track & field championships in Eugene June 10-13th. 

All four Washington schools who sent qualifiers to the regionals in Fayetteville: Eastern Washington, Gonzaga, Washington, and Washington State, at least one athlete to the national championships.

Gonzaga's Rosina Machu (Paul Merca file photo) will make her second appearance at the national championships. Machu was seventh in the 10000 at last year's meet in Eugene.

Machu qualified for both the 10000 and the 5000 at the West First Round meet, so this will be her first appearance at the national championships over the 5000 meter distance.

Eastern Washington's Cort Gebbers was one of the biggest surprises of the meet after finishing eleventh at regionals in the discus, where he entered ranked 90th nationally, and 47th in the region (48 advanced in the West Region) after scratches.

Washington State will have three athletes, led by number 1 ranked Rosemary Longisa in the 1500.

They'll also have steeplechaser Caroline Jepkorir, and returning 10000 meter All-American Evans Kurui.  Kurui, who was the lone male to qualify for the Cougars, is also qualified in the 5000.

The University of Washington will have one of its largest contingents, with 17 men and women athletes making the 4.5 hour bus ride to Eugene.

On the women's side, they'll be led by defending NCAA indoor and outdoor champion Hana Moll in the pole vault, along with heptathlete Sofia Cosculluela. 

Both are ranked number one in their events based on the national descending order list.

Chloe Thomas is the only Husky entered in two events, after qualifying in both the 5000 and 10000.

The Husky men will be led by pole vaulter Jimmy Rhoads, who is ranked number three on the collegiate descending order list.

In addition to the group from the four Washington schools, there are a group of twenty athletes with Washington ties who either attended high school in the state, or began their collegiate career at a Washington school.

That group is led by a trio of sprinters: Arizona's Mason Lawyer, the Big 12 champion from Arizona in the 100, 200 and 4 x 100 relay,  who ran for Washington State; Miguel Rosario of Grand Canyon, who started at SeattleU in the 200; and Houston's Louie Hinchliffe in the 100 and 4 x 100. Hinchliffe, the 2024 NCAA champ at 100 meters, started his college career at WSU.

Puyallup's JaiCieonna Gero-Holt of Illinois, who is ranked fourth in the heptathlon, and defending NCAA javelin champion Valentina Barrios Bornacelli, who started at Washington State, lead the contingent of women.

Kentucky native Sarah Ferguson (Kentucky Athletics photo), who started her college career at the University of Washington before moving on to Division II Roberts Wesleyan University last season, qualified for her first NCAA Division I championship competing for the University of Kentucky. Ferguson was a D2 All-American at Roberts Wesleyan in 2025.

Ferguson is one of three former Huskies competing at the NCAA championships. The other two are Wilma Nielsen of Oregon, and Kaia Tupu-South, now at Louisville.

One stat that jumps out is that eleven athletes who were on Washington State's roster will compete in this year's NCAA championships.

If you count current Cougs Evans Kurui, Rosemary Longisa, and Caroline Jepkorir, there were eight others from last year's team in this year's championships, including 3/4ths of Arizona's 4 x 100 relay team, which qualified for last year's meet while at Washington State.

The eight athletes on Washington State's roster last year were: Kai Twaddle-Dunham (Auburn Athletics photo), Mason Lawyer, John Paredes, Parker Duskin, Blake Sturgis, Grant Buckmiller, Micaela DeMello, and Brooke Lyons.

Lawyer, Paredes, and Duskin, now representing Arizona were on the WSU 4 x 100 relay team (Keenan Kuntz, who was the other runner on the WSU relay team, transferred to Idaho) last year that qualified for NCAAs.  Brooke Lyons, who ran at WSU last year, is on Arizona's women's 4 x 100 relay pool that also qualified.

The others who found homes and qualified for this year's national championships include Twaddle-Dunham at Auburn, Sturgis at Idaho, Grant Buckmiller at LSU, and Micaela DeMello at Oregon.

Below is the complete list of athletes with Washington ties competing at the NCAA championships in Eugene next week. The number next to their names indicate their ranking on the TFRRS national descending order list:

EASTERN WASHINGTON: Cort Gebbers, discus (90)

GONZAGA: Rosina Machu, 10000m (36) & 5000m (47)

WASHINGTON STATE: Evans Kurui, 10000 (5) & 5000m (6); Rosemary Longisa, 1500 (1); Caroline Jepkorir, steeple (23)

WASHINGTON: 

Teko Cates, decathlon (22)

Evan Jenkins, 10000 (19)

Isaac Briggs, 3000 steeple (29)

Martin Barco (77) & Reuben Reina Jr (25), 1500m

Alex Rhodes, 400m (9)

Jimmy Rhoads, pole vault (3)

Amanda Moll (2), Hana Moll (1), Veronica Vacca (15), Sara Borton (44), pole vault

Chloe Thomas, 10000m (14) & 5000 (29)

Julia David-Smith, 5000 (41)

Chloe Foerster, 1500 (17)

Saydi Orange, javelin (26)

Sofia Cosculluela, heptathlon (1)

OTHERS WITH WASHINGTON TIES:

Louie Hinchliffe (Houston) 100 (10) & 4 x 100 (ex WSU)

Mason Lawyer (Arizona) 100 (5), 200 (4) & 4 x 100  (ex WSU)

Miguel Rosario (Grand Canyon) 200 (10) (ex SeattleU)

John Paredes (Arizona) 110 HH (18) & 4 x 100  (ex WSU)

Andre Korbmacher (Florida St) 110 HH (14) (Squalicum HS grad)

Jeremiah Nubbe (Virginia) Hammer (6) (Rainier HS grad) 

Kai Twaddle-Dunham (Auburn) Discus (35)  (ex WSU)

Blake Sturgis (Idaho) Javelin (20)  (ex WSU)

Parker Duskin (Arizona) 4 x 100 relay  (ex WSU)

Jacob Andrews (USC) 4 x 400 relay  (Sehome HS grad)

Grant Buckmiller (LSU) 4 x 400 relay  (ex WSU)

JaiCieonna Geo-Holt (Illinois) heptathlon (4) (Emerald Ridge HS grad)

Erin Tack (Arizona) javelin (28) (Kelso HS grad)

Valentina Barrios Bornacelli (Missouri) javelin (3)  (ex WSU)

Kaia Tupu-South (Louisville) shot put (14) (ex Washington)

Sarah Ferguson (Kentucky) pole vault (53) (ex Washington)

Michaela De Mello (Oregon) 100H (24)  (ex WSU)

Wilma Nielsen (Oregon) 1500 (39) (ex Washington)

Braelyn Baker (Duke) 400m (10), 4 x 100, 4 x 400 (Bear Creek School)

Brooke Lyons (Arizona) 4 x 100 relay  (ex WSU)

The complete list of competitors for the NCAA Division I track & field championships is available here.

NOTE: The NCAA and the sports information offices of Gonzaga, Eastern Washington, Washington, Washington State, Kentucky and Auburn contributed to this report.

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